The PAC and PAC-HAC meeting took place in Dublin on 22-23 May 2018. The main point at the agenda of these meetings was the review of the progress of the convergence roadmap and the preparation of a "scope document" as requested by the GA-C at their last meeting (the PMs and the PAC-HAC were tasked to reflect on the scope of the future single consortium, to identify the core areas of collaboration at the start of the single consortium .., to develop a vision and mission and to identify core values, ...). See the minutes of these meetings.

The purpose of this paper is (i) to define the ALADIN System in relation to the global counterparts IFS and ARPEGE, (ii) to explain the notion of the CMCs, (iii) to document their most recent versions, and (iv) to illustrate the process of the validation and the porting of these configurations to the operational forecast suites of the partner institutes of the ALADIN consortium.

see also ALADIN-HIRLAM : the BIG TOUR : Newsletter n°10 published on January 31st, 2018

The ALADIN GA and the HIRLAM Council met in the Polish NMS premises in Krakow (Poland) on November 21-22, 2017 : the 22nd ALADIN GA, then the LACE Council and the HIRLAM Council in parallel, then the 3rd joint ALADIN GA - HIRLAM C meeting.

Besides the usual items on their agendas, the assemblies approved the Rolling Work Plan 2018 (and its completely renewed format), and committed the resources of their NMS to realised it : the HAC/PAC was asked to further discuss its scope and to follow its realisation.

The convergence roadmap (towards a single ALADIN/HIRLAM consortium after 2020) was debated and guidelines for the next steps were given to the PMs and the HAC/PAC.

Due to lack of time, the "Tour d’ALADIN" could not be presented : the slides are on-line : these 2017 highlights sent by the LTMs will be detailed in the ALADIN-HIRLAM Newsletter n°10, to be published end of January 2018.

The ALADIN budget for 2018 was approved, with a new position (20%F.T.E for a DA coordinator) : the position is opened.